An escape across the Atlantic, where she can cover her cousin's bakery and test out her popular Asian-fusion treats, is the healing distraction Londoner Maddie Liu needs after her failed engagement.Her bags are only packed for a few weeks, but the family friend who collects her at the airport is an unexpected and irresistible temptation.Rick Callahan left the Army to take over his dad's carpentry business and make a home for his sister and her son. He keeps himself busy pro...

Heart-rending, happy-ending romances to enhance your holidays!Family get-togethers for the holiday season can sooth our emotions or savage our souls. No one knows us better than the family and friends we choose share such times with.In each of these seven delightful short romances, our heroes and heroines find going home for this season even more of a heart-wrench, for true love challenges their deepest held beliefs.Going home for the holid...

Winter Ever After is a sweet romance collection with stories from Fiona Keane, Jasmine Luck, and Kate Chambers.Second Chance in Snowfall by Fiona KeaneElle knew she could always go home, but when she and her teenage son move back into her childhood home and she takes over the family business, winter brings a change of plans and a storm of nostalgia that encourages a second chance with her high school sweetheart.Turn the Page by Jasmine LuckWidowed Londoner G...

Adventures among the stars need a ship to get you there.Stories Rule Press presents Space Opera Digest 2022: Have Ship, Will TravelSpace Opera heroes and heroines explore the stars and discover cool new places in ships which range from beat-up rust-buckets to sleek technologically advanced craft that are the envy of the galaxy. Space ships are quintessential for the adventures and challenges our favourite characters face.Come and e...

Just in time for Christmas 2022 comes this boxed set of eight charming stories of love, family, and miracles. Each Belle has contributed a tale set in the festive season--one just long enough to fit in between tasks at this busy time of the year. The tales are unrelated, except by the festive season.Some have been written for this collection, some are made-to-order stories never before published, some have been used as fan giveaways. All are delightful.So watch for the oppo...

Forced to leave the family home a fortnight before Christmas!While her employer and friend lay dying, Emme promised Mirabel Youngwin that her five young daughters would stay together, vowing to herself she would never be parted from them either.Now, two years later, the children's father has also passed. Thrown out of the family home, Emme must find somewhere for her and her charges to stay until their new guardian arrives—when they will most likely be taken to sta...

Grace Banks is much looking forward to her first Christmas at the Home for Desolate Ladies. As its proprietress, she is keen to bring comfort and joy to the gentlewomen who have taken refuge there, and also enjoy the festivities herself. However, the sudden arrival of a visitor threatens her plans, for she and he are not strangers.Edward, Duke of Tavistock, is searching for his young cousin. Winifred went missing after departing Bath under a cloud of gossip, and there is reason to ...

A Christmas in ManchesterMiss Evelyn Allen has led a quiet life in Worcestershire her twenty-one years as the devoted daughter of Pastor Joshua Allen and his wife. She always assumed she'd wed one day since her siblings had all done so, but no man had ever appealed to her in a way that she felt she could look across the breakfast table at him forever.Until he came into her life…The Duke of Manchester never expected to be left robbed and bleeding in the road miles fr...

As the village of Reabridge in Cheshire prepares for the first Harvest Festival following Waterloo, families are overjoyed to welcome back their loved ones from the war.But excitement quickly turns to mystery when mere weeks before the festival, an orphaned child turns up in the town—a toddler born near Toulouse to an English mother who left clues that tie her to Reabridge.With two prominent families feuding for generations and the central event of the Harvest Moon festival...

Dancing into the arms of love?Marcus, Lord Hawthorne, vowed never to fall in love, the past having taught him that marriage can only ever lead to heartbreak. So, how has he allowed himself to be tricked into being leg-shackled to Faith Whitworth, the daughter of a scheming businessman who wants entry to the ton?Marcus's solution for dealing with his unwanted wife is to keep her at Deer Park, his country estate, while he stays in London. But when he returns at Christmastime,...

A Waltz with Destiny NovellaKidnapped: His Bride-to-BePenelope Ashurst is a dutiful daughter, but wishing for just one adventure before she submits to marriage to the stuffy old viscount her father has selected, she sneaks off to attend a society masked ball. There, she dances and shares a secret kiss with a handsome blond stranger. Her heart is stolen! How can she find a way to come face to face with this mystery man once more?When Ranulph Rochefort, Earl of Monfor...

Shall we dance?Left at the altar, Artemisia Germayne's humiliation is made twice as worse by the presence in the congregation of the man who's the bane of her existence. Why does Nigel Rochefort take such pleasure in mocking her? As rumors of Artemisia's abandonment—and also the sudden disappearance of Philippa, her younger sister—swirl about the ton, she flees to her elderly aunt's home in the countryside.Nigel has always taken his good fortune for granted, so when the wom...